Son of Chaim: Son of Chaim

by Janusz ben Yisrael

Overview

Bringing into the fore his family history, on paternal side Jewish, on maternal side Catholic, Janusz ben Yisrael explores his own perceptions of growing up in the post-WWII Poland. His childhood experience of his social environment is impacted by the unfortunate loss of his mother, and by the subtle but powerful and ever-present traumatic aftereffects of his father's war experiences, and his father's loss of entire family in the Holocaust. Janusz attempts to make sense of growing up in the working-class Communist Poland, which underneath is deeply invested in the Roman Catholic faith and nationalistic values, which come into conflict with the world his father fought for, believed in, and aspired to promote. Janusz concludes that no political framework can best explain the meaning of the human catastrophe such as that of Holocaust. And no political framework can protect a society from its collective trauma, collective guilt, racism, and discontents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780645482805
Publisher:	Joseph Poznanski
Publication date:	02/23/2022
Series:	ePub
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	363
File size:	31 MB
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About the Author

Bringing into the fore his family history, on paternal side Jewish, on maternal side Catholic, Janusz ben Yisrael explores his own perceptions of growing up in the post-WWII Poland. His childhood experience of his social environment is impacted by the unfortunate loss of his mother, and by the subtle but powerful and ever-present traumatic aftereffects of his father's war experiences, and his father's loss of entire family in the Holocaust. Janusz attempts to make sense of growing up in the working-class Communist Poland, which, underneath is deeply invested in the Roman Catholic faith and nationalistic values, which come into conflict with the world his father fought for, believed in, and aspired to promote. Janusz concludes that no political framework can best explain the meaning of the human catastrophe such as that of Holocaust. And no political framework can protect a society from its collective trauma, its collective guilt, racism, and discontents.

Table of Contents

My son's dream  

My father 

Abram's last wish

Dark clouds of hate

September 1939

From frying pan into the fire

Gehenna 

Lenino 

Changing tides of war 

Warsaw's Liberators  

If I must die, I'll die with music!  

Prisoner of grief and the prison for the cursed  

From Censorship to Power Games in Sport  

The Psychology of Commemoration  

Disillusion 

The Thaw 

Poland, the 'Christ of Nations'

Memory of my mother

Was my childhood a happy one?  

My Childhood Shame 

Ciocia Wiesia                   

Poland's 1968 Anti-Zionist Chimera

Gdanski Station: Exile 1969            

Poetic Ode to Poland                      

The Gospel of Treblinka                  

Epilogue